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Eastern Asians invented the cannon, and used it to defeat their enemies
The printing press and gunpowder was invented in Eastern Asia.
the compass was invented here as well
The most familiar characteristics of modern science—rigorously demonstrated relationships based on a combination of experimentation and exact measurement—did not exist anywhere in the world before the seventeenth century. Any definition of science that holds for earlier times or for places other than Europe must be more inclusive. More useful criteria are the attempt to find rational explanations, rather than those based on gods and analogues to human will, and the use of abstraction to generalize from concrete data.
One can speak of East Asian science because the educated elite of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared a classical written language. To a large extent, literacy in East Asia meant being educated in the same Chinese classics and writing in a language based on them, just as Europeans for centuries learned and communicated in Latin. China, because of its size, wealth, and bookish literati, tended to dominate its neighbors intellectually in science as in other fields, but East Asians elsewhere made notable contributions, some of which are noted below.
The Southeast Asian Mathematical Society seeks to promote the advancement of mathematics and facilitate exchange and collaboration between mathematicians in the Southeast Asian region, and Asia in general. It is composed of the members of mathematical societies in Southeast Asia.
SEAMS was founded in 1972, the result of a Southeast Asian tour by our founding president Prof Wong Yung Chow of the University of Hong Kong. With the support of mathematicians in the region, the inaugural meeting was held in July 1972 in Singapore. Over the years, exchanges and collaboration were fostered, mathematical societies were founded and strengthened.
The facilitation of mathematical exchanges led to regional conferences on mathematics and mathematics education. Among the series of conferences initiated by SEAMS was the Southeast Asian Conference on Mathematics Education (SEACME), which began in 1978 and was held every three years until 1999. SEACME has since then merged with another outcome of regional exchanges, the East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education (EARCOME).
The focal activity of SEAMS is the Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) series, held every 4-5 years and hosted by countries in Asia. The first AMC was held in Hong Kong (1990), followed by Thailand (1995), Philippines (2000), Singapore (2005) and Malaysia (2009). The next AMC will take place in 2013 in Busan, South Korea. This will be the first time the AMC will held in a country outside Southeast Asia.
East Asian History of Science Library:
THE LIBRARY HAS ITS ORIGINS in the collections assembled from 1937 onwards by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen, from sources both in China and the Western world. It was originally intended for the furtherance of the researches on which the Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) project is based. No other collection of the kind exists in the Western world, offering such an unique mixture of primary and secondary works in Chinese, English, Korean, Japanese and other languages on the history of traditional East Asian science, technology and medicine. Besides the holdings of books, microfilms, periodicals, offprints and manuscripts, it also contains a large quantity of archival and iconographic material in the form of letters, notes, photographs, maps, etc. which will be of singular benefit to future research in these fields.
MANY OF THE LIBRARY'S BOOKS are rare, especially in the West, collected by Dr. Needham on his frequent visits to China and through his extensive contacts there. The collection as a whole reflects his varied interests and the manner in which he worked, moving from subject to subject as he wrote SCC, and thus the primary focus is currently on the history of science, technology and medicine in pre-modern China. Since the early 1990's the core areas of the collection have been strenthened with many new purchases of recent Chinese publications, and though all areas of the history of Chinese ST&M are covered, it is particularly strong on the history of Chinese mathematics, astronomy, medicine and archaeology. These are supported by a useful general sinological collection. The Library also has a modest collection of several hundred traditional Chinese thread-bound books, with some old and rare editions. With interest growing in the history of ST&M in modern China in recent years, we have also begun actively collecting materials in that area.
COVERAGE OF THE HISTORY of ST&M in other parts of East Asia, such as Korea and Japan, has not been so extensive, and we are endeavouring to develop these parts of the collection as quickly as available funds and the generosity of donors will allow. We are delighted that, to this end, recent donations have greatly enhanced the Korean collection .
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Eastern Asians invented the cannon, and used it to defeat their enemies
The printing press and gunpowder was invented in Eastern Asia.
the compass was invented here as well
East Asian History of Science Library: